{"id":10524,"date":"2011-10-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/10\/06\/digitization-of-40000-sanskrit-manuscripts-on-at-bism\/"},"modified":"2011-10-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T12:00:00","slug":"digitization-of-40000-sanskrit-manuscripts-on-at-bism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/10\/06\/digitization-of-40000-sanskrit-manuscripts-on-at-bism\/","title":{"rendered":"Digitization of 40,000 Sanskrit Manuscripts on At BISM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/2011-09-22\/pune\/30189223_1_digitisation-sanskrit-manuscripts-mandar-lawate\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PUNE, INDIA, September 22, 2011 (Times of India): Under the National Manuscripts Mission, a collection of around 40,000 manuscripts in Sanskrit are being digitized at the Bharat Itihas Sanshodhak Mandal. A team began work over a month ago. The work includes digitizing manuscripts from private sources in the city as well.<\/p>\n<p>The process of digitization began at early August, and 550 manuscripts on Ayurveda were the first of the lot to be scanned and uploaded. &#8220;The 40,000 manuscripts run into several thousand pages, the digitization of which is to be completed within the next two years. So far, we have digitized 2,000 manuscripts,&#8221; said historian Mandar Lawate, who is coordinating this project with the NMM.<\/p>\n<p>Dating back 600 years, the Sanskrit manuscripts pertain to various topics on Ayurveda, Puranas, Vedas, philosophy and art. For instance, &#8216;Shivlilamrut,&#8217; &#8216;Pandav Pratap&#8217; and &#8216;Hari Vijay&#8217; authored by poet Shridhar, Eknathi Bhagwat, Sant Tukaram&#8217;s &#8216;gathas&#8217; and &#8216;Dnyaneshwari,&#8217; are some of the manuscripts which would be digitized soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source PUNE, INDIA, September 22, 2011 (Times of India): Under the National Manuscripts Mission, a collection of around 40,000 manuscripts,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}